“It wouldn't take but four or five centrists like me to completely change the dynamics.”

—  Angus King

As quoted in "Angus may be a king-maker" by Deborah McDermott in Seacoast Online (11 March 2012)
Context: We could send down a combination of Pericles and Thomas Jefferson, and if that person's reporting to Harry Reid [Senate Majority Leader] or Mitch McConnell [Senate Minority Leader], he's going to be ineffective. … Every vote is a test vote. Every vote is party loyalty. We're sunk if it keeps up this way. … It wouldn't take but four or five centrists like me to completely change the dynamics.

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